When I woke up Adrian informed me that it was in fact morning, then he asked for my story, since he'd shared his. So the next hour or so I told him about my life growing up in small town Alberta, my friends, my family, including my only sort of supportive mother, and my childhood. I shared my dream of being an actress and the reason I'd ended up so far off the path to Hollywood with him. It was weird, normally, I didn't like talking about myself, one of the reasons I loved acting was that you got to be someone else, put on a new persona, and escape reality. My life was far from perfect, but I knew it could be worse. Adrian listened, rarely interrupting and letting me vent.

Our little conversations continued for a week when I was finally discharged, only to find that when the guardians were fighting the strigoi, my car had been totalled.

When Adrian told me I flipped out, "Are you fucking kidding me!"

"Sorry starlet." Starlet was the nickname he'd given me after I told him about wanting to be an actress, it was annoying but comforting at the same time.

I glared at him. "What am I supposed to do? I have nowhere to go now that my cars totalled and I'm not in the hospital."

He looked thoughtful for a moment. "Well you've got a couple choices. I've got a spare bedroom you could use until the cars fixed, and sorry, but that could take months, there aren't too many garages here and they're all pretty backed up. Or you could stay with Rose, but I'll warn you, you might get woken by a four year old every now and then..."

I looked at him, weighing the options; I eventually decided I'd rather stay with him than Rose. "I'll stay with you I guess."

He smiled, "they managed to get most of your stuff from your car though, and I had them give it to me so I could give it to you once you woke up."

"Oh? You sure it wasn't just so you could keep me around longer?" I said teasingly.

"That too." He said it mysteriously, without really joking

I looked at him then, taking in his emerald green eyes and stylishly messy brown hair. I have to admit, I'm kind of attracted to him. But I don't know if I want him know that, at least not yet, so I just smile and shake my head at him. He smiled back and we kept walking.

When we got to his place, he showed me to the spare bedroom, which my stuff was already in. "Thanks Adrian," I smiled brightly at him, causing him to smile back just as brightly.

"No problem starlet, my rooms just over there. Make yourself at home, the kitchens fully stocked, although it doesn't really get used, Lissa usually cooks for me and the gang."

I smiled at him; the nickname grew on me more every time he used it. "Thanks" with that he left me to get myself organized, which I did, grateful for the time to think alone. Why did I find him so attractive? Lissa and Rose had told me he was a bit of a player when they visited me in the hospital, so why? Was it all just because he, and his guardians, saved my life? It would make so much more sense if that were true and life would be a lot easier, but I knew that wasn't it, I just didn't know what was… Ugh, it was so frustrating. I stopped what I was doing and sat on the bed with my head in my hands. 'It's the eyes,' I told myself, smiling at the thought of his bright, enchanting emerald eyes. "Definitely the eyes," I muttered.

I finished packing and went with Adrian to Lissa's for dinner; Rose sat with her daughter, Katerina, in the living room with Lissa while Christian, Lissa's fiancé, was in the kitchen making dinner. I smiled and said hello as I got in and then I went and sat with Rose and Kat. Adrian had told me that Kat's father had left before Rose could tell him about the baby and then when Rose had visited me in the hospital to keep me company while Adrian went home and slept, she had told me everything. Later she had told me that since I was quickly becoming part of the family, I deserved to know. I was touched that she thought that way about me after only a few days.

"Hey Kat, how's it going?" I smiled at her.

"Amazing!" Was the response I got from the four year old who was playing with a toy.

"That's good. How are you Rose?"

'I'm good, a little tired, but good."

I smiled at her then sat with Kat and played until dinner time, which was spent getting to know each other, Adrian had told them I might be staying for a while. After dinner Adrian and I walked back to his house talking lightly. When we got in I said goodnight and went to bed.


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